Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The passions often engender their contraries.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.