To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

Usually we praise only to be praised.