A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.