Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

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

Hope and fear are inseparable.