Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.