Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.