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.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.