Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.