Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.