Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Few maxims are true in every respect.