What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.