When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.