There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
As is our confidence so is our capacity.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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