Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.