The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.