The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.