People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.