For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

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

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.