The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.