No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

The triumph of hope over experience.