The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The more we do, the more we can do.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.