Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.