Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.