“Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.

People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Too great haste leads us to error.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.