The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.