We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.