There Is An Excess Both In Happiness

Instead Of Considering That The Worst Way To Persuade Or Please Others Is To Try Thus Strongly To Please Ourselves, And That To Listen Well And To Answer Well Are Some Of The Greatest Charms We Can Have In Conversation.

Those Who Are Overreached By Our Cunning Are Far From Appearing To Us As Ridiculous As We Appear To Ourselves When The Cunning Of Others Has Overreached Us.

The Accent Of A Man's Native Country Remains In His Mind And His Heart, As It Does In His Speech.

It Is Almost Always A Fault Of One Who Loves Not To Realize When He Ceases To Be Loved.

It Is The Habit Of Mediocre Minds To Condemn All That Is Beyond Their Grasp.