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.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

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

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

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.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.