Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.