Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.