Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.