It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.