Consciousness of our strength increases it.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.