Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.