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

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.