Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

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.

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.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.