If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.