"Joy and sorrow are the inseparable companions of death."

"The good and the generous action of which we feel incapable is a reproach when done by another."

"Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others."

"Nothing more indicates those tastes and habits which go so far towards both making and showing the character — as a p…"

"When we trace to their source the most important circumstances of our life, in what trifles have they originated! — a…"

"There is a mania in every class to be mistaken for what it is not. Many things innocent, nay, even graceful in themse…"

"It is a notable fact that we keep ourselves most in the dark about ourselves."

"Every one considers the world as made especially for their own purposes."

"Nothing deceives its possessor like vanity."

"No one dies but some one is glad of it."