Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

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

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.