The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.