People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.