True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

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.