For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.