Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.