Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.