No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.