We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.