Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.