Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, is not worth a rush.
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a frenchman to accept the challenge.
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one’s door.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
I never saw an oft-removed tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as one that settled be.