What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.