If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

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

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.