Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.