As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

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.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.