Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.