Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.