Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.