What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.