We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.