We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.