Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.