It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.