Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.