An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.