Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.