There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.