The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.