They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.