Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
False praise is always confined to the great.
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.