Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.