We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.