Misgive that you may not mistake.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.