» Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
» Give help rather than advice.
» Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
» We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
» If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
» Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
» The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
» Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
» Those who can bear all can dare all.
» Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.