No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment