Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.