What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.