A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.