The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.