Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.