Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.