Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.