There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

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

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.