Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
What a man wishes, he will believe.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
The fact speak for themselves.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.