Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.