Esteem never makes ingrates.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism