Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

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.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.