What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

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.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.