The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Where pride begins, love ceases.