We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.