Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth