Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.