Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Small things affects small minds.