The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

One honor won is a surety for more.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.