Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.