Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.