In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.