None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.