The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.