If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.