Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.