Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

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.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.