Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.