We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.