Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.