In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.