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

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.