Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.