That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.