Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

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