Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.