Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.