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

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.