Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste..

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them..

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is….

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to crea….

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking..

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into compar….

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so….

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding q….

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed..

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable ….

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love..

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always danger….

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!.

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity wil….

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities..

A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre….

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 di….

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion,….

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it..