When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

When married people don’t get on they can separate, but if they’re not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.