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

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.