The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

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