To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.