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

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.