Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

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