Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.