False praise is always confined to the great.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.