Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

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 shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.