Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them..

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen..

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art..

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable..

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary….

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily..

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy..

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation..

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example..

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense..

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

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it..

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness..

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived..

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier..

Weak people cannot be sincere..

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference..

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only..

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us..

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them..

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding..