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

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.