 Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. |
| The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. |
| Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! |
| We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. |
| Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. |
| The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. |
| If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. |
| A wise traveler never despises his own country. |
| Reflection makes men cowards. |
| I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. |
| There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. |
| Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. |
| Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. |
| Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. |
| A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. |
| He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. |
| Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. |
| Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. |
| We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. |
| The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. |
