Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

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.