Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.