The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.