Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

The passions often engender their contraries.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

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

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

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.