Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.