Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

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.