There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.