The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

The only security is courage.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.