There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.