Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.