When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.