There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.