We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.