It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

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

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.