Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
What we wish, that we readily believe.
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.