The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!