One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

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 must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

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

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it