Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.