Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.