A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.