Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.