Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet..

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it..

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything..

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue..

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence..

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself..

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive..

Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oi….

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; ….

Softness of smile indicates softness of character..

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence..

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good..

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you..

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad..

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again..

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy..

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence..

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief..

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended..

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?.