What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.