Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.