Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.