Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

Conscience warns us before it reproaches us.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

When a man reaches a condition in which he believes a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and what he wishes to happen can never be, this is called desperation.

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.