“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. ”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.”

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”