As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.