It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.