One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

A lie is an excuse guarded

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.