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

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.