If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.