Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.