It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.