Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.