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.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

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

False praise is always confined to the great.