Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.