To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.