Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.