Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

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

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.