The more we do, the more we can do.

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.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

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.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.