“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

“Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished”