It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.