Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.