There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

God sends the cold according to the coat.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.