We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.