It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.