Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.