What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.