When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.