Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.