The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.