He who best knows the world will love it least.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.