The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.