We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

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

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

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.