Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.