Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.