Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.