Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.