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

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.