Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.