Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

Haste is always ungraceful.