The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.