Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

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

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.