Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

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.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.