True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.