The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.