The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

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

We always like those who admire us.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.