Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.