Custom is the great guide of human life.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.