The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.