The only security is courage.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Nothing is so contagious as example.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.