To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

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