Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.