James Boswell Quotes on Psychology
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
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Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
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[...] for the Doctor observed, that no man takes upon himself small blemishes without supposing that great abilities are attributed to him; and that, in short, this affectation of candour or modesty was but another kind of indirect self-praise, and had its foundation in vanity.