Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.