Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.