As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.