Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.