We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.