If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.