If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

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

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.