A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.