Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

The only thing constant in life is change

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

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.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.