Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.