Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Principle is a passion for truth.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Dandyism is a species of genius.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.