As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

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