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

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.