A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.