there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

the best of all good friends is pride.