It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.