There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.