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

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.