Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

People can commend the weather without envy.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.