People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

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.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.