The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

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.