A Man Cannot Please Long Who Has

Nothing Ought More To Humiliate Men Who Have Merited Great Praise Than The Care They Still Take To Boast Of Little Things.

Great Names Abase, Instead Of Elevating, Those Who Do Not Know How To Bear Them.

Humility Is Often Only A Feigned Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A More Calculated Sort Of Pride.

Never Give Anyone The Advice To Buy Or Sell Shares, Because The Most Benevolent Price Of Advice Can Turn Out Badly.

The Judgments Our Enemies Make About Us Come Nearer To The Truth Than Those We Make About Ourselves.