The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.