There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

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.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.