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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

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.

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

The worst of faces still is human.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.