Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.