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

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.