Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.