There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.