If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.