A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.