A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

A relationship is about recognising (re-cognising or re-knowing) in every moment the other as the beautiful soul that he or she is.

Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path.

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

I'd like to be remembered as a good person, that gave as much as she could with what she had to give.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

I start to crack at four hundred to one.