We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

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.