The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

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

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.