No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.