We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.