Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

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

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.