We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

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.