Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

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

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.