What We Take For High-mindedness

Customary Use Of Artifice Is The Sign Of A Small Mind, And It Almost Always Happens That He Who Uses It To Cover One Spot Uncovers Himself In Another.

Misers Mistake Gold For Their Good; Whereas 'tis Only A Means Of Attaining It.

Almost Everyone Takes Pleasure In Repaying Trifling Obligations, Very Many Feel Gratitude For Those That Are Moderate; But There Is Scarcely Anyone Who Is Not Ungrateful For Those That Are Weighty.

The Dullness Of Certain People Is Sometimes A Sufficient Security Against The Attack Of An Artful Man.

What Renders Other People's Vanity Insufferable Is That It Wounds Our Own.