Envy is littleness of soul.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.