Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.