The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.