We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.