We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.