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.

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 most trying fools are the bright ones.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

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.