It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they’ll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.
Sudden love is latest cured.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.