The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.