Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.