Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.