We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.