However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.