No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.