Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

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

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

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.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.