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

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

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

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.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.