Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.