Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

Envy is littleness of soul.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.