A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.