The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

The passions often engender their contraries.

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.