If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.