Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.