Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.