“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”