Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

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

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.