Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

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.

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.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.