Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.