He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.