Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.