It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.