The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.