Esteem never makes ingrates.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.