It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

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

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.