Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

We always like those who admire us.