Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

When we have got it, we want something else.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.