There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.