He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

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

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.