Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.