Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.