It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

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

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.