You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.