“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
