We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

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

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.