It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.