Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

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.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.