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

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.