When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

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

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.