Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.