We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.