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

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.

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

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

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.