True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

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

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.