Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.