The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.