Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
False praise is always confined to the great.
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.