To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Security will produce danger.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.