Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

I am my nearest neighbour.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.