Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

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.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.