It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.