The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.