Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.