The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.