Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

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

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.