People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.