The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.