men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last