To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.