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.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.