Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.