We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.