There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.