1. “Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.”
2. “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
3. “Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places”
4. “Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.”
5. “Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.”
6. “Every single instance of a friend’s insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.”
7. “Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.”
8. “A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.”
9. “Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.”
10. “Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.”
