Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.