We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

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.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.