Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.