Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

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

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money