I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Always the same thing.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.