We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.