The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.