Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

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

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.