Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.