A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

In a major matter no details are small.

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.