The only security is courage.

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.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]