I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

The end of pain we take as happiness.