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

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

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

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.