We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.