Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.