It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

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

We pardon as long as we love.