Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.