If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

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 can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.