The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

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

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.