Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.