A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.