It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.