Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.