As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

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.