If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

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.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.