Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.