A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.