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

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.