We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.