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

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.