The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.