It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.