There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.
It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.