Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.