A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.