Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
