We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.