Out of difficulties grow miracles.

A modest man never talks of himself.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.