Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Great men should not have great faults.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

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

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.