The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.