It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

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.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.