Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

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.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.