It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.