Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.