The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!