The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.