A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

A modest man never talks of himself.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.