Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.