Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.