It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

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