Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.