Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

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.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

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