Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.