Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.