We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear 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.