People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.