To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

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

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

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

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.