We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.