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

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.