No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.