We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.