It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

We are always on the side of those who speak last.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.