We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

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

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.