If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

The conscience is more wise than science.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.