Organize one's values in the order of their worth

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

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

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.