We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.