It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.