It is not he who searches for praise who finds it..

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with en….

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent..

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice..

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such..

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it..

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism..

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors..

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events..

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything..

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us..

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it..

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way..

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue..

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent..

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity..

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins..

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time..

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors..

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit..

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea..