It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.