If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

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

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

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