The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.