The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

A person can't help their birth.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.