Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.