True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.