None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.