It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.