The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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

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.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.