We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.