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

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

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.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.