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

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.