Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.