What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.