We pardon to the extent that we love.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.