We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.