Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

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

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

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.