The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

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.

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.