Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

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

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.