Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.