As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.