Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.