Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.