Confidences are strange things. If you listen only to one man, it is possible that he is deceived or mistaken; if you listen to many, they are in a like case; and, generally, you cannot get at the truth at all.
No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.
An honourable man with limited ideas often sees through the rascality of the most cunning jobber.
If a man feels no love, he must learn how to flatter; otherwise he will not succeed.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him.