What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.