A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.