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

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

The only thing constant in life is change

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

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