Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.