To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.