At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

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