Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

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

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth