Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.