There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

Success never needs an excuse.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.