What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

The only security is courage.