Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.