Only the great can afford to have great defects.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.