However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.