It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.