Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.