It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

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

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.

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

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.