The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.