One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

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

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.