Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

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

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.