The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.