Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.