Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.