A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.