All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

The only thing constant in life is change

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.