There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

To forget someone means to think of him.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.