Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.