It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.