There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

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.