Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.