We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

We pardon as long as we love.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.