It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.