Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

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

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.