There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.