Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.