We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.