We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
Forgive what you can't excuse.
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
One can never outlive one's vanity.
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.