Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.