It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.