Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.