Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.