Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.