If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.