Esteem never makes ingrates.
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
Hope and fear are inseparable.
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.