It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.