We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.