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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.