For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.