The heart is forever making the head its fool.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.