To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.