Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.