Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.