Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.