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

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.