Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.