We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.