The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.