Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.