Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

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

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

The worst of faces still is human.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.