Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.