Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.