Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.