Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.
Out of mind as soon as out of sight.
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.