We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them. |
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom |
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion. |
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets. |
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. |
We are not hypocrites in our sleep |
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. |
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received |
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. |
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. |
We as often repent the good we have done as the ill. |
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. |
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. |
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. |
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. |