Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.