It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.