A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.