Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.