If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.