There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

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

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.