Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.