There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.