Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.