524
Boswell said of Dr. Johnson—"Though a stern true-born Englishman, and fully prejudiced against all other nations, he had discernment enough to see, and candour enough to censure, the cold reserve too common among Englishmen towards strangers. 'Sir,' said he, (Johnson) 'two men of any other nation who are shown into a room together, at a house where they are both visitors, will immediately find some conversation. But two Englishmen will probably go each to a different window, and remain in obstinate silence. Sir, we as yet do not enough understand the common rights of humanity.'"
525
Rochefoucauld said, "The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy."
526
If we did but know how little some enjoy the great things they possess, there would not be so much envy in the world.
527
All matches, friendships, and societies are dangerous and inconvenient, where the contractors are not equal.
—Estrange.