If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

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

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.