Only the great can afford to have great defects.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.