Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.