The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity