Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.