We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.