In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.