Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.