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

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.