Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

The happier time, the quicker it passes