Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. – Francois FeNelon
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. – Francois Fenelon
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. – Francois Fenelon