The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.