The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.