Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

One honor won is a surety for more.