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.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!