Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.