Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.