Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.