The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

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