Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

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

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.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.