It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.