Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.