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

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

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

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.