Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

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.

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

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.