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

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

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

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.