The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.