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

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.