Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

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

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.