We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.