Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.