The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.