The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.