Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.