Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

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

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.