There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.