Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

The post of honour is a private station.