Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.