Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.